- you can have 1(or 0) crafting skill, no limit on gathering skills, and mission skills- you can learn all crew skills on Dromund Kaas / Coruscant, after those planets, you will find every crew skill trainer on every planet’s main base (main base is where your ship arrives)- you can discover rare recipes while using crafting skills (I mean when your companions are using crafting skills)- there are some companions with bonuses like “cybertech critical +1″, it gives the companion more chance to discover rare recipes- you can only do gathering skills, your companions can do everything- yes, your droid is a companion- every character knows reverse engineering, and you can reverse items your companions made (not all of them, for example you can’t reverse mods)

Gathering skills

- by “mining”, I mean there’s a node, like mining nodes on wow, and you harverst materials from that node, like you did in wow- by “skinning”, I mean there’s a dead monster of some kind, and after you loot it, you can harverst some materials from it, just like with skinnig beasts in wow

SlicingHow it works: There are electronic safes, broken computers, data storage units, and other stuff like that on the planets, and you can “mine” from them.What it gives: Lockboxes, and the lockboxes can contaion: money (mostly), items, blue cybertech materials.What crafting skill uses it: Cybertech.Note: If you have slicing, you’re rich, if you don’t have, you’re poor.

ArcheologyHow it works: There are crystal nodes on the planets, and you can “mine” from them.What it gives: Color crystals (for lightsaber mods), power crystals (basic material for lightsaber, and force user armor stuff), artifact fragments (datacron assembling stuff).What crafting skill uses it: Artifice, synthweaving.Note: Nothing extra. It works exactly like mining in wow, minus the mining pick.

ScavengingHow it works: There are scrap nodes, metals, and stuff like that on the planets. You can “mine” from them. Other than those, you can “skin” strong / elite / boss droids.What it gives: Metals (basic materials for armormech, armstech, and cybertech).What crafting skill uses it: Armormech, armstech, cybertech.Note: Very easy to level, because there are shitloads of strong / elite / boss droids in the game.

BioanalysisHow it works: There are some plants on the planets, which you can “mine”. Other than that, you can “skin” strong / elite / boss bioligical enemies.What it gives: Generic materials (basic biochem material).What crafting skill uses it: Biochem.Note: Nothing extra. I think you get the idea here.

Crafting skills

Item slots on a character: Head, chest, hand, waist, legs, feet, wrist, ear, implant, 3x relic, and of course your 2 hands for weapons / other stuff.Don’t get confused, you will see power / color crystals here too (as you saw at archeology). They have the same name, but they’re not the same stuff. The power / color crystals here are made from those “mined” by archeology.

Rokan wrote:id love to give more insight on the gathering and such but the retarded NDA is still up, anyways im downloading the new build as i right this so ill see whats changed

Nice, do you know if any new invite are going out or did they stop all invite but too those who were alrdy in via normal/weekend beta?I wish I was in beta so it would help me figure out which class i want to play first and be my main.Seeing how your choices can effect how things turn out.